"E-cycle" Old Computers at Fairfax County Computer Recycling Event

"E-cycle" Old Computers at Fairfax County Computer Recycling
Event

Fairfax County residents can recycle their computers on Saturday, Sept.
11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the parking lot of CompUSA, located at 12189
Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax. There is a $10 fee for processing computer
monitors. All other equipment is taken free of charge. The fee and the
value of the donation are tax deductible. Over 25,000 pounds of computers
were collected at an event at this location in 2002.

The computers will be recycled by ServiceSource’s Keep It Green program.
ServiceSource is a local non-profit organization that employs individuals
with disabilities. Their employees will collect all obsolete computer
equipment, including monitors, printers, keyboards, mice and CPUs. The
equipment that is collected is either refurbished for resale or, if there
is no reuse value, the equipment is dismantled and recycled for parts so
that no material is sent to the landfill or incinerated.

Each person donating a computer will be eligible to win a new printer
courtesy of CompUSA. The event is sponsored by CompUSA and Peterson
Retail Management.

“We are very excited to have the support of CompUSA, Peterson and
ServiceSource as we build our e-waste program in Fairfax County. This is
truly a winning partnership in which private business is giving back to
their community by supporting a valuable job program for people with
disabilities and, at the same time, protecting our environment,”
commented Pamela Gratton, manager for the Fairfax County Recycling
Program, part of the division of Solid Waste within the Department of
Public Works and Environmental Services.

ServiceSource’s Keep It Green Program is headquartered on Edsall Road in
Alexandria. Since the program’s inception in March 2002, ServiceSource
employees have processed more than 300 tons of obsolete electronic
equipment. In partnership with Computer Donation Management of Baltimore,
Md., the Keep It Green Program successfully recycles this equipment while
at the same time providing valued employment for people with
disabilities.

For more information about the computer recycling
event, contact Meredith Eisenberg with the Fairfax County Recycling
Program at 703-324-5313, TTY 711 or ServiceSource at 703-461-6000, TTY
711, or visit the ServiceSource Web site at www.keepitgreen.org.
Recycling information is also available on the county’s Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes.

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